MSU paints the campus pink for Breast Cancer Awareness
Mississippi State will shed its maroon and white Tuesday and turn the campus pink as they recognize Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
Local woman offers breast cancer survivors ’emotional healing’
For more than 25 years, Sandra Camp has been giving breast cancer survivors a new lease on life.
Camp fits women with “breast forms,” bras that are worn by women who have undergone mastectomies. It’s a venture her mother started in the 1970s at The Uniform Center in Columbus, the family-owned business.
Latest technology makes painful mammograms a thing of the past
Most women have heard the horror stories, passed around the dinner table and growing in magnitude until a simple diagnostic procedure begins to take on the shadings of an epic nightmare.
A breast cancer journey: From surviving to thriving
The silver bracelet is relatively new. But the philosophy behind its inscribed words has been a tenet of Dianne Hand’s life for most of her 51 years: Live well. Love much. Laugh often.
Luncheons focus attention on breast cancer
Registration filled quickly for Tuesday’s second annual breast cancer awareness luncheon at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle, but it’s not too late to reserve a seat for next week’s luncheon at Mississippi University for Women.
For Zetas, every month is breast cancer awareness month
For the 200 members of Mississippi State University’s Gamma Zeta chapter of Zeta Tau Alpha, breast cancer awareness is both national philanthropy and personal mission. And though October is traditionally set aside for awareness campaigns, for these young women, it is a year-round passion.
Beating breast cancer? There’s an app for that!
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and if the men in the National Football League can wear pink, surely the rest of us can use technology to prevent, diagnose and beat breast cancer.
Research shows that one in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer, and early detection is important.
Fight breast cancer, buy stamps
Columbus post offices kicked off breast cancer awareness month Monday with pink, pink, everywhere, from pink-frosted doughnuts for customers to pink balloons competing for space with envelopes and parcels in the Bluecutt Road facility’s lobby.
Breast Cancer: Early detection key to survival
Get ready to see a lot of pink in the upcoming weeks as National Breast Cancer Awareness Month kicks off in the Golden Triangle and around the country.